Retired Guatemalan colonel sentenced to 20 years for civil war massacre

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Retired Guatemalan colonel Juan Ovalle Salazar was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for his role in the massacre of 25 Indigenous people, mostly children, some 40 years ago during one of the most brutal periods of the country’s conflict.

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